Jellicle Cats - Blog Posts
with every new hyperfixtion comes a new ship
based off a conversation with my friend (who plays skrimbleshanks)
I know we don’t like to talk about the movie, but
Maitre D’ from the 2019 version of Cats
Like, some bits of the movie were actually pretty good and I loved the added in characters, especially Maitre D’. I just find him to be such a cutie pie and I think it’d be cute to see him and Mistoffelees following Bustopher around during his musical number. Maybe he’s Misto’s father, as Bustopher is always considered to be the magician’s uncle! I just love him so much and would love to him in a future production
Last night I had a dream where Munkustrap was in a pixelated computer game and he had to defeat Thrakkorzog or something. He shot out electric shocks when you pressed X and coughed up a hairball when you pressed space. “Extra Nerdy” was his big move and it’d put the enemy to sleep for a moment.
It was eventful
I love trying different styles and seeing how they work for me. Needless to say, I like the one I used for Victoria a little bit more than Electra’s, but Exotica’s is okay. I’m not keeping these though. I drew them for my aunt, along with several others I won’t be posting because I did use styles from actual artists I looked up and don’t wang to take credit for the work they did that I just redrew.
Is it weird my reaction image is Asparagus Jr?
The Tuggoffelees (and two more) kittens.
Castillo - The oldest of the litter. Basically the walking definition of calm. He couldn’t care less about drama and is always that one guy that brought the chips when everyone else forgot. He loves his dads, but he’d rather hang out with someone else’s parents for a change. His own can be kind of a lot sometimes.
Atticus - Skimbleshanks is a firm believer this is HIS kitten and he’s absolutely right. It more of “heat of the moment” kind of thing with Mistoffelees, but also some revenge for the kitten Tugger would be having with a certain female. Despite this, Tugger absolutely adores the little guy. Skimble often took him for little trips on the railway until he lost Atticus in the luggage van and then Misto refused to let his kitten go anymore.
Lennox - Tugger and Misto’s little ray of sunshine. Most of his looks came from his grandmother, so they kind of thought he’d Ben like her. Nope. He learned to smile much quicker than his siblings and he did it on a bad day for his parents, which made things a bit better. He found wonder in things a lot of cats took for granted and made new things out of the junkyard’s trash. He wasn’t actually magical, but it sure felt that way with how he could brighten up a room by simply walking into it.
Willow - Sweetest of the bunch. Willow adores her aunty Victoria and loves to play with her cousins more than anything in the world. She has some slight magical abilities, but they aren’t as powerful as she’d like them to be. So far, she’s been able to make a ball of light.
Scrimshaw - Born around the same time as his half-sister was, but with one eye. It was just a hollowed out hole in his face that he grew self-conscious about and Tugger never saw it until he came back from the other birth. Jennyanydots just took him aside one day, gave him an eyepatch, and never said anything about it afterward. Tugger, nor Misto were sure what to name him, so he was nameless for the first week of his life until Misto heard of a scrimshaw and said “That’s the one.” Tugger is still questionable about the choice of name, but Munkustrap finds it to be quite a good name, mainly due to the fact that he had said it when Misto picked the name out.
Emalanna - Tugger and Bombalurina’s kitten. She was born in a separate den around the same time as her half-brother. She considers him her twin, though it isn’t known if he feels that way about it. She was envious towards how her mother acted with her father, wanting something like that for herself, but without some other cat being with her lover. She has a STRONG dislike towards Mister Mistoffelees and really only likes the fact that he’s the ‘mother’ of her half-siblings. She does however have a huge crush on that adult tom, Alonzo.
Daffodil - The runt of the first litter and originally a daddy’s girl. Due to the magician’s exhaustion, she had a harder time coming into the world. Her dad was the first sight she saw and she became clingy to him. Tugger had always kept an eye on her after that, making sure was doing okay and getting her in particular to adulthood became one of his main focuses. Of course, the one terrible day he had his back turned to talk with Bomba, she’d wandered off. Next thing he knew, he was bolting out of the junkyard as the growls of a dog and painful cries of a kitten could be heard. He didn’t know how to fight for the life of him and was flung off until Mistoffelees comes in claws and magic to save the day. She was never trusted around Tugger again and Daffodil became attached to Misto instead.
Cats (2019) - Review
Watching Cats in the midst of the COVID-19 quarantine was a surreal experience. I guess this movie should have been one of the first hints of the rollercoaster year that 2020 is currently shaping up to be.
Most of the movie made me narrow my eyes in search of the mission of this film. For one it's really funny that the ‘cats’ in this movie look a lot like humans dressed in cat suits who are really drunk and so want to put in a little more pizzaz into showing off their cat skills. Also ‘Jellicle’ sounds a lot like genitals at times which is highlights the fact that none of the male ‘cats’ have any visible genitals but all the female cats do have visible breasts (real cats were apparently never consulted during costume design). Also for a movie where the characters are visibly trying to come across as cats and they them selves identify as cats there are a surprising number of Cat puns that try to lighten the mood but just make it more cringe worthy.
Watching this film made me understand the need to be more self-compasionate. We all make mistakes and questionable choices. If Dame Judi Dench who has Macular degeneration and Sir Ian McKellen who suffers from memory loss chose to be part of this movie I guess I could live with my poor life choices as well (if only my life choices could pay me as well).
All in all, this movie gives Cats bad PR, really bad PR. It reduces these complex, majestic little furry beasts into laughing stocks and cats world over should consider suing.
Notable mentions: Why are cockroaches the same size as rats? That just shows that either they have teeny tiny rats or super massive cockroaches in their made-up universe.
Add on: The performances of the all the humans who are masquerading as cats are really really good individually but sewn together just cannot make you distracted from the fact that they are humans in digitally enhanced cat suits.
Girls night!! 💅
Demeter in gold
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My secret Santa drawing for you, Merry holidays and stuff :)))
Can't think of a funny caption right now but please watch this, I made it today.
Some watercolor Cats for your consideration
I drew Maia Arson Crimew (the catgirl who leaked the no-fly list last January) as a jellicle cat @nyancrimew
My silliest ideas always come late at night -
Cats the Musical: Pokemon AU
Tecklenburg is my favorite non-replica (and maybe my favorite production ever) so I drew some of the Katzen :)
Shitpost that came to me in a vision (reference to this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGLOzth4wCE&ab_channel=el)